Strategic Planning Consulting
Effective long-range strategic planning is the glue that holds companies together. Using our Six Rings Planning Model, we help businesses and organizations develop a strong strategic foundation, consisting of purpose, core values, and vision. We help our clients build balanced scorecards tied to the strategic foundation. We also help them understand their strategic environment and craft strategies, action steps, and systems to adapt to it successfully.
Examples of our success vary widely. We've helped Fortune 500 companies develop and implement changes in their business models that resulted in significant growth. We've helped public organizations develop strong strategic plans and balanced scorecards. We've helped non-profit organizations achieve significant breakthroughs in performance by aligning their boards of directors and executive teams around a clear vision and measures of success.
As a result of our experience, our strategic planning consulting will provide you with a multitude of skills and tools that can facilitate a speedy turnaround and enable organizations to implement strategic change quickly. The outcome is higher levels of performance and profitability.
Strategic Planning Models
We help our clients build a strong strategic foundation by designing and managing creative, collaborative strategic planning processes. The result is clarity of business purpose, well-understood values, and a compelling vision for the future, coupled with goals.
Building on that foundation, we assist clients in defining business objectives, actions and timetables, tied to financial projections and budgets. We work closely with the chief executive and the executive team during this process. Often we are called upon to facilitate decisions by boards of directors, senior managers, employees, and other groups. The result is a business plan that the client owns and is ready to implement.
Information Technology Strategic Planning
One of the most striking trends in the past decade is that many Information Systems projects fail due to the lack of organizational adoption. Interestingly enough, it is not the technical implementation costs that drive these numbers. Rather, it's the ability of people to adopt the new technologies. This is the critical issue that leaders must manage aggressively if they are to come close to realizing the projected return on their IS investments.
If the major roadblock to achieving the expected ROI is organizational and employee adoption, it is clear that the human deployment is as important as the technical installation. The key is an integrated change management program that is sponsored and supported by senior business leaders.
LRI can help by:
- Aligning senior leaders in prioritizing the strategic need for improved processes, workforce behaviors and related technological tools;
- Engaging operational leaders and influential staff in redesigning end-to-end business processes, job duties and behavioral expectations;
- Helping to orchestrate the related communications to ensure IS adoption occurs effectively and consistently throughout the organization.
Investing in high quality change management to ensure successful IS adoption reduces implementation costs, improves overall performance and provides a significant return on investment. We would be happy to meet with you to discuss the specific ways in which LRI can assist you and your organization.
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